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+#    Copyright 2013 IBM Corp.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+"""Provides the definition of an RPC serialization handler"""
+
+import abc
+
+
+class Serializer(object):
+    """Generic (de-)serialization definition base class"""
+    __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
+
+    @abc.abstractmethod
+    def serialize_entity(self, context, entity):
+        """Serialize something to primitive form.
+
+        :param context: Security context
+        :param entity: Entity to be serialized
+        :returns: Serialized form of entity
+        """
+        pass
+
+    @abc.abstractmethod
+    def deserialize_entity(self, context, entity):
+        """Deserialize something from primitive form.
+
+        :param context: Security context
+        :param entity: Primitive to be deserialized
+        :returns: Deserialized form of entity
+        """
+        pass
+
+
+class NoOpSerializer(Serializer):
+    """A serializer that does nothing"""
+
+    def serialize_entity(self, context, entity):
+        return entity
+
+    def deserialize_entity(self, context, entity):
+        return entity